DVD looks horrible on LED flatscreen

I don't mean to be a wet blanket, but if the same DVD is looking good (or better) on other monitors, then I would suspect the presentation monitor, and its ability to play standard definition source material correctly.

Have you gone through the setup menu on the monitor? I know some monitors have MPEG artifact filters, that reduce the apparent compression artifacts - but soften the image in doing so.

MtD

Rylie wrote:

But when I try to use the 7.0 as the average bit rate, it moves the max to 8.3. I'm getting an error from DVSP saying that bitrate is too high.

That indicates that your video is too long for that bitrate. In reviewing this thread, I see that is something i didn't;t ask about before suggesting 7 Mbps. If it's longer than about an hour and a quaarter, you'll have to adjust the slider until the indicated time allowance is above the run time of the video.

One other thing I noticed is you indicate field dominance as Upper. The DSLR's shoot true progressive, which is what should be showing in that box. I'd go back to your FCP project and check your sequence settings.

Finally, since you found that your previous DVDs also had some issues, I would agree with MtD and revisit the the equipment explanation. I remain curious about the role of the player in all this. Should be easy enough to swap out.

Russ

Hppy to hear you're making progress.

None in FCP is correct fpr progressive.

This latest summary does indicate progressive, while the first one (5.5 Mbs) indicated interlaced (upper).

I don't understand the DVDSP warning either. I tried a test @ 8.5 without it complaining.

Have you tried a different player yet?

Russ

also, are you aware that you can play an HD quicktime from a computer to most flatscreens? May require a little work cabling correctly, but many flatscreens have dvi inputs.

little late to the conversation but...

In compressor try changing your GOP to "IP"

From the Compressor Manual

• IP: No B-frames are used with this setting. Choose IP only if your media contains fast motion that isn’t encoded with sufficient quality using an IBBP or IBP structure.
• IBP: One B-frame is used between reference frames (I-frames and P-frames). Choose this setting only if your media contains fast motion that isn’t encoded with sufficient quality using an IBBP structure.
• IBBP: Use IBBP for the majority of MPEG-2 encoding situations, along with a GOP size of 15 for NTSC, or 12 for PAL. Two B-frames are used between reference frames with this setting.

Hope this helps

Tony

Rylie,

I have just been through the same and to understand this issue it is helpful to understand the following

1. Progressive vs interlaced vision
2. Frame rates and shutter angles in camera
3. Progressive vs interlaced televisions
4. How mpeg compresses vision and the purpose of the I, P and B frames
5. DVD players, each handles the upsizing of SD to HD TV differently, the newer ones typiclly doing this better. The cabling used on a player will make a difference, composite, component or HDMI, composite only handling interlaced vision.

Rylie, there are so many variables and unfortunately these topics are a little to lengthy to cover here, besides there are many far more knowledgable people out there who have written on these topics in depth. I would suggest a search on each and reading some on each as, frustratingly, they all affect the end result.

Tony